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By MICHELLE LALONDE, The Gazette September 20, 2010

Ciara Raudsepp-Hearne, with 7-month-old daughter Ida on Mount Royal, worked on a paper about the "environmentalist's paradox": "People see these doom and gloom environmental reports but they also look around and see that most people in the world are doing very, very well." - pics/2010/09/29671_1_t.jpg — Ciara Raudsepp-Hearne, with 7-month-old daughter Ida on Mount Royal, worked on a paper about the "environmentalist's paradox": "People see these doom and gloom environmental reports but they also look around and see that most people in the world are doing very, very well."

Photograph by: PIERRE OBENDRAUF THE GAZETTE, The Gazette

If the environmentalists are correct that Earth's ecosystems are deteriorating at a frightening pace, then why are we humans thriving like never before?

That, in a nutshell, is the "environmentalist's paradox" that McGill University researcher Ciara Raudsepp-Hearne and her colleagues set out to explore in a recently published paper that is getting some high-profile attention around the world.

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